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title: GitHub Issues & PRs
description: Connect GitHub and start sessions from issues and pull requests.
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# GitHub Issues & PRs

Connect your GitHub account and OpenChamber can pull in issues and pull requests, start a session straight from one, and open or update PRs for you.

## Connect GitHub

1. Open **Settings → Integrations** and expand the **GitHub** card.
2. Choose **Connect GitHub**. OpenChamber shows a link and a short code.
3. Open the link, enter the code, and approve.

When it's connected, your account shows on the card. You can connect more than one account and switch between them, or disconnect at any time. If the `gh` CLI is signed in on the same machine, OpenChamber can use it as a fallback.

## Start work from an issue or PR

When you create a [worktree session](/worktrees/) with GitHub connected, you can choose **Start from GitHub issue/PR**:

- pick an **issue** and OpenChamber names the branch after it and opens the session with the issue and its comments as the first message
- pick a **pull request** and it checks out the PR's branch; you can include the PR's diff so the agent has the full change

This drops you straight into a session with the context already loaded.

## Open and manage pull requests

From the **PR** tab in the [git view](/git/), you can create a pull request, update it, mark a draft as ready, or merge it. OpenChamber can generate the PR title and description from your changes.

## Link an issue or PR to a message

In the chat composer, choose **Link GitHub Issue** or **Link GitHub PR**. The issue, or the PR with its diff, rides along with your next message as context, and the session's work status panel keeps a link to it. The same picker can start a new session with the issue as the first prompt.

## Related

- [Git & GitHub Workflows](/git/) — commit and manage branches
- [Worktree Sessions](/worktrees/) — where issue and PR sessions start